I forgot to do this last week, because I was busy preparing for SteelyPalooza on Saturday, but here are links to my recent physics posts over at Forbes:<\/p>\n
— What ‘Ant-Man’ Gets Wrong About The Real Quantum Realm<\/a>: On the way home from the Schrödinger Sessions, I had some time to kill so I stopped to watch a summer blockbuster. The movie was enjoyable enough, thanks to charming performances from the key players, but the premise is dippy even for a comic-book movie. It does, however, provide a hook to talk about quantum physics, so…<\/p>\n — Great Books For Non-Physicists Who Want To Understand Quantum Physics<\/a>: I did a bit of name-and-title-dropping at the Schrödinger Sessions, and a few of the writers asked if I had a list of books I would recommend (other than, you know, How to Teach [Quantum] Physics to your Dog<\/em><\/a>). I didn’t have one already put together, so I made a new post listing a dozen good books to read.<\/p>\n — How Quantum Randomness Saves Relativity<\/a>: Inspired in part by the many discussions of entanglement at the Schrödinger Sessions, a discussion of why you can’t actually use entangled particles to send messages faster than light. “Spooky action at a distance” is impossible because of “God playing dice,” a cute bit of historical irony.<\/p>\n — What Has Quantum Mechanics Ever Done For Us?<\/a> I know you get more and angrier comments on political posts, but for sheer “WTF?” weirdness in the comment section, nothing beats quantum physics. This is a short explanation of the quantum underpinnings of major modern technologies, in response to a crank who left a bunch of angry comments on a G+ link to the quantum randomness article.<\/p>\n Not a huge number of posts for two weeks of blogging, but I’m very happy with them. And the quantum randomness one in particular is a nice counter to some myths about science communication– over 20,000 people have clicked through to read an article that builds up to a citation of the no-cloning theorem. I’m pretty proud of that.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I forgot to do this last week, because I was busy preparing for SteelyPalooza on Saturday, but here are links to my recent physics posts over at Forbes: — What ‘Ant-Man’ Gets Wrong About The Real Quantum Realm: On the way home from the Schrödinger Sessions, I had some time to kill so I stopped… Continue reading Physics Blogging Round-Up: Two Weeks’ Worth<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,18,6,265,21,35,7,51,37,23,141,11,52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10111","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogs","category-books","category-forbes-recap","category-in_the_media","category-links_dump","category-movies","category-physics","category-physics_books","category-pop_culture","category-quantum_optics","category-relativity","category-science","category-science_books","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10111"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10111\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10111"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10111"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/chadorzel.com\/principles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10111"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}